Buy Delta MQMs For 2015 SkyMiles Status

It’s no secret that loyalty programs are huge businesses in and of themselves. With the end of the year upon us, many frequent flyers are scrambling to rack up those last few thousand elite qualifying miles towards next year’s status.

It should come as no surprise that airlines will often gladly sell you those last few thousand elite qualifying miles for a steep cost. Transactions don’t get much more “profitable” than outright selling elite qualifying miles, given that they can’t actually be redeemed for anything.

BUY MQMS. EARN MQDS.

Still hoping to reach Diamond, Platinum, Gold, or Silver Medallion® status for 2015? Good news—now through December 31, 2014, you can buy between 2,500 and 10,000 Medallion Qualification Miles (MQMs) that will post to your 2014 MQM balance and apply toward your 2015 status.

Bottom line

Really Delta should just make status exclusively based on revenue and put a “tip jar” on the website that lets you buy up to the next elite tier. It would probably be cheaper.

In all honesty, as I’ve said in the past, it’s almost always a better deal to just take a last minute trip if you’re short of status. If that’s absolutely not an option then it could still make sense to buy up to the next status level, crazy as these prices are.

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I’m 4100 short and am willing to take a flight and back to generate them between now and the end of the year. Is there a website somewhere where I can search the least expensive Delta fare to “nowhere”? If not, what is the easiest way to find the least expensive flight to anywhere?

I’m at 21K MQM and $1300 MQD… so $1325 = 5000 would requalify me for silver. But silver isn’t worth $1325 to me. But I’m not even allowed to do that if I wanted to: my targeted offer is 5000 for $825…. which wouldn’t be enough MQD.

Stupid Delta and their stupid fight with KE have driven me away to other airlines.

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